# Microsoft AI — MAI-Code-1.1-Flash: Better, faster, at a quarter of the cost | Microsoft AI

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-08-11
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-1-1-flash-br-better-faster-at-a-quarter-of-the-cost/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10743-mai-code-1-1-flash-better-faster-at-a-quarter-of-the-cost-microsoft-ai
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Code-1.1-Flash
- Pricing: one quarter of the price of 1.0

Microsoft AI released MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, an update to its coding model launched at Microsoft Build in June. The new model produces higher quality code with 25% greater token efficiency and at a quarter of the cost of the previous version. It is now in production in GitHub Copilot, showing a 22% improvement on Terminal-Bench 2.1 in GitHub Copilot CLI and a 15% improvement on .NET tasks, with code survival up 4% and return visits up 9%.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-1-1-flash-br-better-faster-at-a-quarter-of-the-cost/:

> Better training and serving efficiency let us offer a stronger, faster model at one quarter of the price of 1.0—and pass those savings reliably to customers.

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